New bull run as we get ready for the second half of 2019 . The Halftime Report with scott wapner begins right now. Welcome good to have you with us this monday joe terranova, scott brown, sarat, shannon here. Dow closing in on a new record again. New pace for its best month since october of 2015. Its been a great month. Were going to roll into the second half with pretty good momentum whats going to decide whether we can keep it or not . Well, i think the prevailing trends will remain intact. Take a look at microsoft and walmart. These stocks continue to roll up anyone thats been betting against them have been out for a long time. A lot of people are coming to those stories new. Its shocking how big those market caps are for the respective sectors but you till have people coming to these sectors saying i missed a lot but i still feel theres upside i think that continues the two best looking sectors believe it or not right now away from tech continue to be Consumer Staples xlp. And agai
Plus, were taking your questions. The Halftime Report with scott wapner joe, amy of Chevy Chase Trust and j. J. , with us today. Lets begin with the markets stocks digesting another move into the record books, setting up for what lies ahead there is a lot for investors to consider the looming meeting between President Trump, president xi increased tensions with iran, and earning season in the not too distant season we set another new record for the s p. Tech hits an alltime high today. Thats been the second best performing group this month. And i might finally get steve into the camp where he thinks well see rate cuts but thats clearly what the fed told us yesterday. The table is set for them. Now thats jaw boning. When they do it, that will be Something Else i already have a bet for dinner with steve i think hes going to have to pay off on that. Unless you drive in an rv, that ship has sailed. Which ship. Because you said two in two weeks the fed will ease. No, i said if we converted.
S p 500 up 3. 5. All of this coming after the major indices closed at record highs. Dow up 55. The nasdaq and s p gaining 1 . Treasury yields with the tenyear yield at 4. 33 . That was fast. Lets look at the meme stocks. Well see. It could come roaring back. Gamestop now down six. It was more than double that. Amc is above the recent lows. Gamestop and amc fell during yesterdays session. Amc, as it has in the past, took advantage of the rally. Announcing a debt for equity stock. It completed a stock sale on monday. Theres the weekly chart. There is contraction and time you think that is a meme stock craze lasts four days . The last one lasted and went much higher. Much higher levels. People said gamestop was much harder to short. Right. It could be a weak phenomenon . Four or five weeks . Yeah. It went into the hundreds, didnt it . People really wanted it to happen. They wanted it to happen. It would be hard to keep any of these things going. Do you think were going to see a meme from
Now. Amc up 10 . Sunpower corporation has dropped. Watch that volatility. And our good friends at black berry are up a little over 1. 5 after what was a wild, wide ride yesterday. Well talk more about that and the implications of that. Are we back . Are we back . Its like going in a time machine. Treasury yields, we should mention this. Copper prices hitting a record high overnight. 5. 02 per pound in an effort to build the global economist maybe something well talk about with our secret mystery guest who knows a lot about evs and cars and other things. So gamestops up, sorkin, today. It is. But not as much as it was. It opened at almost 65 yesterday. It did. It closed at 48. It did. Today were in the mid50s. Were not hitting the crazy high we hit yesterday. Im torn. Theres no doubt, i agree with you, its like certifiably insane, but then there are people that write in, so you clowns think its okay for hedge funds to have naked shorts and do this and do that, but its not okay when the
Meeting this week along with the jay powell press conference. That will be the focuses for the markets. Right now, the tenyear yield is just about where it has been the last tcouple weeks propalestinian protests continuing on College Campuses over the weekend some schools requesting Police Intervention to stop encampments. Jill stein was arrested at a protest. She said it was about freedom of speech which needs debate and dialogue at ucla, protests by propalestinian and proraisrael supporters and at state university, they paused connections to boeing after they demanded to cut ties with the weaponing Manufacturing Division the school has no investment in boeing it accepted 150,000 in donations. Boeing providing 28,000 a year for scholarships the University Paper aresident d in response to the issues. Officials in china removed restrictions on tesla cars after the vehicles passed the Data Security requirements. Just this morning, the wall street journal is reports that chinese officials